Asylum Seekers Accommodation and Safeguarding Debate

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Department: Home Office

Asylum Seekers Accommodation and Safeguarding

Rachael Maskell Excerpts
Monday 7th November 2022

(1 year, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Robert Jenrick Portrait Robert Jenrick
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I will certainly ensure that local authorities are better communicated with about the location of children to their area and the support that the Government are making available. I am holding a teleconference later this week with all local authority chief executives and leaders to listen to their views and to advise them of our steps. On the back of that, if we need to make changes to our processes, I will certainly try my best to do so.

Rachael Maskell Portrait Rachael Maskell (York Central) (Lab/Co-op)
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Inhumane centres and overcrowded, let alone unsafe hotels are no place to put these very vulnerable families. In light of the success of the Homes for Ukraine scheme, why will the Home Office Minister not undertake to have a homes for refugees and asylum seekers scheme, so that people can be settled in communities, supported and kept safe?